DSA-292-3 mime-support -- insecure temporary file creation

Colin Phipps discovered several problems in mime-support, that contains
support programs for the MIME control files 'mime.types' and 'mailcap'.
When a temporary file is to be used it is created insecurely, allowing
an attacker to overwrite arbitrary under the user id of the person
executing run-mailcap.

When run-mailcap is executed on a file with a potentially
problematic filename, a temporary file is created (not insecurely
anymore), removed and a symbolic link to this filename is created. An
attacker could recreate the file before the symbolic link is created,
forcing the display program to display different content.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 3.18-1.3.

For the old stable distribution (potato) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.9-1.3.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been
fixed in version 3.23-1.